They’re extremely new and open about what’s missing though. Their plans apparently got somewhat thrown all over the place by the sudden extreme interest and quite a few things aren’t yet in place (such as the self-hosting guide). Still works surprisingly well, and what they do goes into the right direction (no VC funding or investors, removal of the CLA, bound to GDPR, a full FOSS atack, etc).

Element is still as buggy as ever, unfortunately…

The only realistic alternative I’ve found so far is Fluxer, and that one is still in Beta. Very promising though.

Ever since Pipewire was introduced my sound just… works. Aside from missing drivers (super rarely) I have absolutely no issues.

Also known as a deadly laser

Capitalism doesn’t breed enough innovation for new reasons. That’s why they need AI, to come up with new bullshit.

“far more dangerous”

I know a few countries who might not see it that way (as in: they see it as equally dangerous). Namely places like Chile or Vietnam.

True, Ring’s bad contract habits in terms of contracts are very well known after all.

Doesn’t your local DNS has to reach out to another DNS to query yet unknown addresses, causing an infinite loop as it’s now told to reach out to itself?

Might be a stupid question, but how are PR’s connected to your server deployment?

Renovate?

Good thing there isn’t a filter for “has working voice channels that aren’t a hot mess”, the list would be immediately and fully empty. With the exception of Mumble perhaps, but that one instead doesn’t have any text channels or community features.

Absolutely not impossible for a skilled dev with lots of free time. This is still an Alpha after all.

Where do I even start…

• The verification process constantly breaks
• Sessions get randomly unverified
• Pictures aren’t being send occasionally
• Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
• Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
• The “experimental” voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain can’t be disabled)
• The Calls via Jitsi somehow have a worse UX than Skype had in its worst days
• The verification via emojis uses different emoji styles, missing the point completely
• Due to the session mess “Can’t decrypt message” will be your best friend
• Even if you got a verified session it sometimes fails to decrypt a message
• The federation is SLOW. As in “wait many many minutes” slow.
• The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
• There’re no proper moderation tools
• There isn’t even a god damn admin panel! For the longest time you had to MANUALLY CURL THE API. Even today you have to mess with third-party admin panels that usually don’t have all options exposed
• Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isn’t.
• They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isn’t available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
• Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly don’t expect anything but text chats with pictures there.

I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. It’s a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Don’t even bother trying it.

This is political agitprop again, from a fresh account as usual.

Because Stoat is also riddled with problems and Matrix is a dysfunctional hot mess.

David Revoy is a known artist, this is his art style.

So confidentally wrong. Don’t blame you though, by now it’s hard to tell if you don’t know the artist.

David Revoy is known for his “Pepper & Carrot” series, among other things.

Do you want a scene-by-scene explanation of every command shown?

I understood everything, and I hate it.

Didn’t expect to ever see this thing again. Search engines literally reroute you to child protection services if you look for it.